Personal Narrative: The Ice Planet

Have you ever experienced your whole home being destroyed right in front of your face? Have you ever seen hundreds of people die for you so you can save your own? I’m Alexander Savage, I’m from the Chione (Key-own-nee) colony on the ice planet in the Apollo Solar System. You might think an ice planet would be harsh to live in, but it was home to us. My homeland is no longer intact because of the company that destroyed it. The ice planet was rich with a mineral that is called “Life Crystal” which is found under the surface. It helped cure many diseases, stop poison, and could stop certain death. It only worked when the air was around and when all the pieces were together and not broken, making it impossible to work in space. It was shared across the solar system as a gift of peace. Over time all the planets in Solar System Apollo were destroyed by the Helios company. The company wanted dominance in all solar systems. The company heard about the crystals and what they can do, so they started to take them, destroying all the planets for them. The last planet still standing, was us. I was seventeen and living with my Dad, who was forty. I was an engineer working with my dad to design, build, and refine energy sources for the colony. We always worked together and never gave up on each other since my Mom left the colony. My mom left when I was seven because she needed to go back to Ceres, where we originally came from. There were system failures at the nuclear reactors and everyone was going to be affected if she didn’t help correct the mistakes. Three years later, all life on Ceres was wiped out from the radiation. My mother died while she tried to help. Her death broke my heart and I went into the biggest depression the whole colony ever seen. I talked to myself about if I would ever grow up normal, as if the kids who didn’t have a mother were impacted for life. My father said to me, “With a mother or not, you’re still the best son I will ever have.” After that, we did everything together, trying to keep me happy and away from depression. We didn’t know about the attacks until we got a passenger on an escape pod from the Minerva colony, telling us what Helios was doing to the colonies, one by one. We had to act quickly before they took all the life crystals. We stored all of our crystals in a safe that’s fifty miles below the surface. We had no escape other than a spaceship which would barely go into the atmosphere staying intact. Much of the colony was going to go out and fight for what’s theirs. Many people worked hard for the colony and didn’t want to just leave their hard work. …show more content…
Soldiers come out with black and yellow impenetrable suits, and were armed with extremely powerful weapons. Everyone one of them has a life crystal sealed on their vest. On the other side, we had no armor and weak weapons, but did have our life crystals on. We all stood frozen just like the ice right beneath us. We all felt the cold, which was unusual because we were so used it, we were almost immune to the cold. The soldiers then turned into a position that made a path for the President of the company, President Skarr. He had this determined, stern, powerful look. Everyone there had goose bumps, including the soldiers. He opens his mouth and says very deeply, “Let’s make a …show more content…
Screams of terror echoed in my ears. Within the smoke I saw my father lying on the ground helpless. I barrel towards him, trying to help him, lying in his tattered coat. Once I get there he only whispers, “To win a war there will be casualties, you know what to do,” as he points to the Helios ship. “I love you,” he says frozen on the ground, surrounded by bloodstained ice, dead. I sprinted around the enemy lines. As I reached the Helios I encountered several guards, defending their forceful ship. One by one I crushed their crystals and proceeded to knock them out to avenge my